Business gears up for new economy storage

The pattern of under investment in storage is gradually changing as the new economy puts increasing demands on business.

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By Kate Hanaghan, 2 February 2001 09:10

NEWS According to a report by Butler Group research house, many more companies will be increasing their investment in storage infrastructures because of the critical need for information availability. However, cost and implementation complexities have historically held back the move to storage area networks (SANs) and network-attached storage (NAS). Susan Clarke, senior analyst at Butler Group, said one reason storage strategies have been neglected in the past is that business decision makers have considered SAN and NAS investments difficult to justify. Adding capacity to direct-attached storage has been favoured because it is a lot less expensive than changing the means of storage completely. Clarke said: "Companies need to look at the wider view. For example, maintenance costs can be significantly reduced through the consolidation of storage onto a single SAN." But the trend is definitely changing and the Butler Group suggests that by 2003, storage will consume as much as two-thirds of the IT budget. According to Clarke, this will leave the market wide open with no overall market leader emerging.

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